Achorius parvioculis, Kuschel, 2008

Kuschel, Guillermo, 2008, Curculionoidea (weevils) of New Caledonia and Vanuatu: Basal families and some Curculionidae, Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 197, pp. 99-250 : 153

publication ID

978-2-85653-605-6

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5492954

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039F87B5-FFF2-471E-FF7D-FE4DFE2AFBEB

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scientific name

Achorius parvioculis
status

sp. nov.

Achorius parvioculis n. sp.

Fig. 49

DESCRIPTION. — Reddish or dark brown. Vestiture consisting of a thin pile of bifid setae evenly dispersed over the elytra, a row of longer, backwards curved bifid setae lining the basal margin of elytra, and simple, undivided, nonclaviform long, nearlky straight setae on rostrum, pronotum and elytra, the setae longer and evenly spaced on dorsal interstriae. Head and forehead finely strigose. Eyes small, with a dozen or so ommatidia. Scrobes smooth and shiny all the way to eyes. Elytra lacking elevations or clusters of specialized setae.

Length: 1.9-2.4 mm.

TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype 1.9 x 1.0 mm, data as above, NZAC. 9 paratypes with BPBM, IRSN, NZAC.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — New Caledonia. 10 specimens (not sexed), Pic d’Amoa near Poindimié, 500 m, 26.X.1978, sample 78/254, G. Kuschel .

ETYMOLOGY. — The species epithet ‘parvióculis’ is an adjectivised Latin noun derived from ‘parvus’ = small, and ‘oculus’ = eye.

REMARKS. — All the specimens were obtained from a sample of sifted leaf litter taken in rainforest under Nothofagus aequilateralis and Agathis .

NZAC

New Zealand Arthropod Collection

BPBM

Bishop Museum

IRSN

Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Achorius

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